Policy & Strategy

U.S. and NATO officials say there is no planning going on to intervene in Syria despite continued fighting there as an international peace plan has failed to quell the violence.

U.S. Ambassador to NATO Ivo Daalder said at a Sunday evening briefing that there was “no planning going on that’s related to a NATO role in Syria.”

At the NATO summit in Chicago Sunday, Obama said the Afghan war "as we understood it is over." 

Jockeying on an Iran sanctions bill is expected to continue as lawmakers address differences ahead of high-level nuclear talks.

The administration has been steadfast in calling for a diplomatic solution, but concerns are growing time is running out.

Democrats are crying foul over GOP suggestions that President Obama has a “secret deal” on missile defense with Russia.

French President Francois Hollande reiterated his campaign pledge to pull French troops out of Afghanistan this year.

The bill obligates $100 million next year to plan for the site, but billions would be needed to complete it.

Taiwan will get no fewer than 66 new U.S.-built fighter jets over the next few years if legislation passed by House makes it into the final fiscal 2013 Pentagon budget bill. 

House members on Friday threw a wrench into the Pentagon's plans to finalize a vital international treaty, which the department claims will keep the peace across the world's waterways. 

The House accepted an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would replace the sequester of discretionary defense spending for fiscal 2013, making the bill compatible with the House-passed budget resolution.

The amendment from Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.) was approved 220-201 Friday morning, and reflects the ongoing Republican effort to spare the Defense Department from sequester cuts and take required budget savings from other departments.